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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Dec 3.
Published in final edited form as: Opt Lett. 2003 Oct 15;28(20):1915–1917. doi: 10.1364/ol.28.001915

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

With dual axes, low-N.A. objectives focus the illumination beam into the tissue and collect the reflected light off axis. The total axial resolution (the length of the black oval) is significantly improved, and noise from light scattered along the illumination beam (the checkered area) is reduced.